Minta Durfee Movies

Two clownish stagehands make life difficult for the manager and cast of a dramatic production.

Fatty's Debut is a 1914 short comedy film directed by and starring Fatty Arbuckle.

A man plots to kill a friend and marry his wife in order to get hold of insurance money.

Fatty steals a ride on a train, discovered, and put off in the middle of nowhere. He stumbles along over the hot desert and finally passes out. A...

A farce involving an esteemed judge, his young wife, and the District Attorney she's seeing on the side; Misplaced jewelry and a message written on a...

Love and Bullets is a 1914 Comedy short

A city slicker tries to woo a country girl while her boyfriend fixes his tire.

Rebecca's Wedding Day is a 1914 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Billy Gilbert.

A short comedy in which two lovers post their letters in a box in a tree. The old man gets wise and sets a snare, by which he catches Fatty's hand....

Roscoe begins work on his new job as janitor of the Shortacre Building in New York. While performing his duties he enters the offices of a broker, I....

Roscoe writes of his love and announces that he will call on Irene with the ring and ask her parents' consent to their marriage. Father and mother...

A Brand New Hero is a 1914 silent Comedy short.

Mr. Walrus needs a turkey for Thanksgiving dinner with his in-laws but his plans keep going awry.

Fatty's Flirtation is a 1913 movie starring Roscoe Arbuckle and Mabel Normand.

The manager of a small town hotel installs a cabaret in an attempt to achieve the standard set by restaurants in the large cities. His effort is...

This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey's oft-used plot of "employing bad guys as good guys to...

When Fatty Arbuckle accidentally hits on the rajah, he declares, "Death to all flirts!" and hijinks ensue.

Droppington's Devilish Deed

Helene, who dances in a Greenwich Village cabaret accompanied on the violin by her grandfather, loses her job after his death. She then is hired as a...

Fatty and Mabel go to the San Diego Exposition.